- Keir Starmer condemns Israel's plan to take over Gaza City BBC
- Live updates: World leaders criticize Israel’s plan to take over Gaza City CNN
- Israel rejects international criticism of Gaza City takeover plan BBC
- Israel’s plan to take over Gaza City stirs fears for civilians and hostages AP News
- Even some Republicans are questioning Netanyahu's plan to have Israel occupy Gaza City Axios
In major shift, Germany suspends arms exports to Israel over Gaza City takeover plan – The Times of Israel
- In major shift, Germany suspends arms exports to Israel over Gaza City takeover plan The Times of Israel
- As Gaza faces starvation, reluctant Germany starts to curb support for Israel Reuters
- Germany Says It Will Suspend Military Exports to Israel for Use in Gaza The New York Times
- Germany imposes partial arms embargo on Israel over Gaza City occupation plan Axios
- 'We'll beg for the Iron Dome’: Germany’s Merz faces backlash over Israel arms embargo Ynetnews
India’s Modi Invites Russia’s Putin to Visit Amid US Tensions – Bloomberg.com
- India’s Modi Invites Russia’s Putin to Visit Amid US Tensions Bloomberg.com
- Modi vows to "deepen partnership" with Putin after Trump's tariffs Axios
- India’s Modi shares ‘good call’ with ‘my friend’ Putin after Trump tariffs The Hill
- PM Modi, Putin Talk On Phone On Deepening Ties Amid Trump Tariff Row NDTV
- Putin to visit India at the end of 2025, Ifax reports Reuters
Vance says UK and US have ‘disagreements’ over Gaza, as he confirms Trump does not back Palestinian state recognition – as it happened
David Lammy is hosting the US vice-president at Chevening, his grace-and-favour residence in Kent, where they will discuss the Middle East
The SNP is calling for the recall of parliament so that MPs can approve sanctions against Benjamin Netanyahu in the light of his decision to extend the occupation of Gaza. In a statement Stephen Flynn, the SNP leader at Westminster, said:
A genocide is happening before our eyes in Gaza. Words of condemnation aren’t anywhere near enough - if we have any hope of stopping this genocide strong actions are desperately needed, now.
That means Keir Starmer needs to recall Westminster and take concrete steps to sanction the Israeli government.
Those sanctions must include ending all arms sales to the Israeli military, stopping all training, logistical and military support to the IDF, directly and personally sanctioning Netanyahu and his ministers and finally and immediately recognising the state of Palestine before it is brutally wiped off the map.
If the international community fails to act - we are consciously and complicitly standing idly by - allowing Benjamin Netanyahu to plan, implement and inflict an ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Three more victims of 9/11 terrorist attacks identified in New York City
Barbara Keating, Ryan Fitzgerald and an unnamed woman were identified by DNA testing nearly 24 years after attacks
Advances in DNA testing have allowed forensic scientists to identify three more victims of the terrorist attacks in New York City on 11 September 2001, authorities in Manhattan have confirmed.
The development brings to 1,653 the number of individuals who have been positively identified from the 2,753 who died after al-Qaida terrorists flew two hijacked commercial aircraft into the twin towers of the World Trade Center on that morning.
Continue reading...Eight bat researchers mostly from Asia and Africa refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific event
Organisers say move will damage nation’s scientific standing as government refuses to comment on why group of scientists were refused entry
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Organisers of an international research conference have criticised a last-minute Australian government decision to deny visas to eight invited researchers, mostly from Asia and Africa.
Prof Justin Welbergen, chair of the 20th International Bat Research Conference in Cairns, said the decision to deny the researchers entry without option to appeal had disrupted the event, which is a key forum for global collaboration on bat research and conservation.
Continue reading...Timetables, tricky tickets and high prices: the problems with European cross-border rail travel
For all the fanfare over new routes, fast and efficient rail services between major cities remain a rarity
At 9.55am every day since December, a German ICE high-speed train has left the Gare de l’Est in Paris headed, via Strasbourg, Karlsruhe and Frankfurt, for Berlin Hauptbahnhof, where – all being well – it pulls in just over eight hours later.
Remarkably, the service is the first direct, high-speed, centre-to-centre rail link between the capitals of the EU’s two biggest countries. Run by Deutsche Bahn (DB) and France’s SNCF, it has been hailed as a milestone in European train travel.
Continue reading...‘Freeze’ in Ukraine war may be close, says Tusk, as US and Russia plan talks
Polish PM makes remarks after speaking with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, amid White House efforts to end the conflict
A “freeze” in the war in Ukraine may be close, the Polish prime minister said on Friday, as the White House and the Kremlin push forward with discussions for a high-level summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in the coming days.
Donald Tusk’s remarks came after he spoke with the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who has communicated with Trump and European leaders in recent days as the White House continues to try to broker an end to the three-and-a-half-year war.
Continue reading...Bidding battle for NHS landlord Assura intensifies as watchdog steps up investigation
US suitor KKR lobbies board to accept offer to take Assura private as CMA looks into £1.79bn offer by rival UK investor
The bidding battle for the NHS landlord Assura has heated up after its US suitor KKR lobbied the board to accept its offer, while the competition watchdog stepped up its investigation of Assura’s £1.7bn takeover by a rival UK healthcare investor.
Primary Health Properties (PHP), which invests in buildings housing GP practices, has been blocked from fully integrating Assura by the Competition and Markets Authority while it looks into the takeover.
Continue reading...River Island gets green light for rescue that saves more than 4,000 jobs
Restructure by family-owned fashion chain involves 33 store closures but leaves more than 1,000 jobs at risk
River Island has got the green light for a rescue restructure that saves more than 4,000 jobs but will shut 33 of the clothing chain’s 230 stores as people shift to buying online.
The plan to reduce costs, which still puts more than 1,000 jobs and a further 70 sites at risk, won approval from a high court judge on Friday after a majority of creditors gave their backing earlier in the week.
Continue reading...Eleven domestic workers arrested over illegal abortions in Hong Kong
Police stress they do not believe the women, in their 30s and 40s, are in a crime syndicate.
Eleven domestic workers arrested over illegal abortions in Hong Kong
Police stress they do not believe the women, in their 30s and 40s, are in a crime syndicate.
New Tariff on ‘Transshipped’ Goods Mystifies Importers – The New York Times
- New Tariff on ‘Transshipped’ Goods Mystifies Importers The New York Times
- Tougher transshipment penalties on US imports not immediate: Report Al Jazeera
- Why a Product’s Country of Origin Matters in Trump’s Trade War Bloomberg.com
- Trump's threatened 40% tariff on 'transshipped' goods tries to target China and its manufacturing strength Fortune
- Chinese manufacturers rethink south-east Asia pivot after Donald Trump’s tariffs Financial Times
What we know about Israel’s plan to take over Gaza City
The plan faces fierce opposition within Israel as well as international criticism.
Kyiv holds farewell for journalist tortured, killed in Russian captivity – The Kyiv Independent
- Kyiv holds farewell for journalist tortured, killed in Russian captivity The Kyiv Independent
- Ukrainian journalist who died in Russian captivity buried in Kyiv The Guardian
- Questions Remain As Kyiv Holds Ceremony For Journalist Tortured Before Dying In Russian Detention Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Ukraine buries reporter who died in Russian captivity, urges release of others Reuters
- Russia Killed Ukrainian Journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, Yet Her Memory Lives On UNITED24 Media
11 bodies found in Spanish cave reveal brutal Neolithic cannibalism – Euronews.com
- 11 bodies found in Spanish cave reveal brutal Neolithic cannibalism Euronews.com
- Stone Age family may have been cannibalized for 'ultimate elimination' 5,600 years ago, study suggests Live Science
- Human Bones Reveal Evidence of One Horrifying Cannibalistic Feast ScienceAlert
- Human bones found in Spanish cave show signs of ancient cannibalism New Scientist
- 5,700-year-old cannibalism linked to Neolithic violence uncovered at El Mirador cave in Spain Archaeology News Online Magazine
Israel’s delusional, inhuman Gaza takeover plan could be recipe for perpetual war
Decision will place huge financial burden on Israel and could lead to massive increase in Palestinian civilian deaths
One of Israel’s most celebrated images is David Rubinger’s photograph of a trio of paratroopers at the newly captured Western Wall in 1967, an event that would mark the beginning of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.
You see it when arriving at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport. It has been used to illustrate the Israel Defense Forces’ “values” page, and appears endlessly in the Hebrew media and on pro-Israel sites.
Continue reading...Israeli citizens concerned about hostages amid new Gaza City plan – BBC
- Israeli citizens concerned about hostages amid new Gaza City plan BBC
- Hostage families sail toward Gaza calling for Israel to end the war CNN
- Hostages’ families protest against Gaza plan – as it happened The Guardian
- Israeli Leftists Say They Lost Compassion for Palestinians. But Did It Ever Exist? Haaretz
- Israeli sentiment on the war in Gaza is shifting The Economist
Crocs US sales tumble as shoppers choose trainers
The rubber clog-maker claims it is competing with a "clear athletic trend" ahead of the World Cup.
Can Russia’s Economy Withstand Trump’s Threats to Impose Sanctions? – The New York Times
- Can Russia’s Economy Withstand Trump’s Threats to Impose Sanctions? The New York Times
- Best way to ramp up Western sanctions on Russia is to double down on their enforcement The Kyiv Independent
- Letters | US sanctions have succeeded – in making Putin stronger South China Morning Post
- The Economy of the Russian Federation Will Not Collapse: Hetmancev Explained Under What Conditions This Will Happen 112.ua
- Putin unfazed as his economy holds up The Observer